Westmoreland v. State’s Empirical Analysis

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1 state decisions

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1. “[For a prosecution of] false pretenses, it is necessary to charge that the pretenses were false; that the defendant knew them to be false; that he obtained from another certain money or other valuable things; and that the pretenses were the moving cause by which the money or things were obtained. Because of the absence of extrinsic facts in explanation of the pretense and wherein it consisted, the indictment was fatally defective. In addition, it also failed to charge that the defendants knew that the writings were false.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Sharon Sallie v. State of Mississippi